Overview Fmt/known? Problems with Format identification This webinar gives an overview of the digital preservation activities at the National Library of New Zealand. It explains what they do, and why they are doing it with a focus on format identification. Jay explores some of the challenges they have faced over the past few years and talks about the technologies and workflows they use. Session lead Jay Gattuso, National Library of New Zealand

Overview This webinar presents a case study of digital preservation and digital library development at the London School of Economics. It will cover the nature of digital library collections we are working with now and a bit about our experiments and future directions for other kinds of born-digital material; the high-level architecture and functional components we have in place, and a discussion about our general approach and what we feel we can avoid having an opinion about for now; discussion…

Overview This webinar looked at the techniques the National Archives New Zealand is developing to aid in the analysis of collections and also support the dissemination of the skill set that will help non-digital-preservation specialists continue to support the organisation in its ability to process born-digital collections. In 2013, the Archives New Zealand’s worked on analysing the content of a recent Royal Commission. It brought them to the conclusion that a different approach was needed to analyse digital content that could potentially be…

Practical experiences with archiving PDF files This webinar deals with archiving PDF files. As PDF files in our repository have myriad data producers, the heterogeneity of PDF files is overwhelming. Unfortunately this means the creation of errors as well. Usually, the original data producers cannot be contacted any more, therefore we have to do the best we can with the PDF material. As we ingest PDF files and (almost no) PDF/A-files, the validation is done with JHOVE. JHOVE flags issues…

Ingest more for less! An expensive part of ingesting digital collections into digital repositories is the quality assurance (QA) phase. Traditionally, data and metadata are quality assured before ingest, to ensure that only data which complies with the repository data formatting and documentation standards is preserved. This webinar will look at the Minimal Effort Approach from the Statsbiblioteket in Denmark. In Minimal Effort Ingest, we postpone the QA of data and metadata until after the data has been ingested and…

This webinar presents the Outer OAIS-Inner OAIS (OO-IO) Model, which is a model building on OAIS allowing different functional entities to be shared among archives. This is especially used in Distributed Digital Preservation (DDP) which is crucial for various parts of digital preservation, but is not covered in detail in the OAIS reference model. Here distributed digital preservation is “the use of replication, independence, and coordination to address the known threats to digital content through time to ensure their accessibility”.…

The British Library has a large digitisation portfolio and currently there are about 25 initiatives at the British Library which vary in terms of scale, funding models and process. Digitisation is delivered both internally and through partnerships and the Library has been investing in infrastructure and business process developments. The presentation will explain the processes in place for planning and delivery of internal digitisation projects, including standards and technical developments to support ingest and access to digitised content via the…

Through the Jisc funded Filling the Digital Preservation Gap project the Universities of York and Hull have been investigating how research data created within their institutions might be preserved using Archivematica. This webinar will provide an insight into the project. The Universities initially investigated Archivematica to assess its potential for use in this scenario. Having concluded it is a suitable solution, they then worked with Artefactual Systems to improve Archivematica to enable it to work better within a research data management infrastructure. The final phase of the project saw each…

Overview: The webinar will present the large experience of the BnF in mass digitisation and digitisation processes (OCR, digital archiving, …). The BnF also offers access to its digital library Gallica obtained through the library’s commitment to the digitisation of selected items of its collections. Gallica now contains over 3,5 million digitised documents: manuscripts, sound materials and music score, books, images and newspapers issues, in French and other languages. They cover all domains of knowledge, with a specific focus in…

PRONOM is an online file format registry, maintained by The National Archives in the UK. It contains information about approximately 1500 different digital file formats. Identifying file formats in your collection is an essential first step for digital preservation. This webinar will provide an introduction to PRONOM, and explore the different types of file signature and how they contribute to identifying specific formats. In the second part of the webinar, you will gain an insight into the experience of creating…

Digitization of cultural heritage is big business nowadays and the possibilities seem endless – But how do we actually get what we ask for? And how can we assess if we get what we ask for? QA workflows in times of mass rapid ex- or internal digitization emerge and the necessity becomes more and more obvious. How to set up a QA workflow in mass digitization and what are the ingredients for it will be shown on a business case…

Today, there is plenty of evidence that good scientific practice cannot be obtained for web references in general by today’s referencing practices. It is also evident that web references are crucial for both current and future research, and thus there is a high demand for new referencing methods to web material which can support good scientific practice. This webinar will present the findings from Danish research projects which have resulted in suggestion of PWID (Persistent Web IDentifiers) referencing style including the four…

On 13 June 2017, the OPF held a webinar called ‘PRONOM in Practice’: https://openpreservation.org/event/pronom-in-practice/ (login required). The presenters (David Clipsham, Jenny Mitcham, and Justin Simpson) gave an introduction to PRONOM, an online file format registry maintained by The National Archives in the UK, and described how to create new PRONOM signatures and submit them to the Registry. Following on from this, we are running an online workshop that will equip participants with the tools required to submit a new entry to PRONOM. In the workshop,…

This webinar is organised in collaboration with the IM​PACT Centre of Competence. The aim of this webinar is to introduce usage of web analytics tools (like Google Analytics) in the context of cultural heritage collections. During the webinar basic possibilities of such tools will be presented with special focus on usage scenarios related to websites that make cultural heritage collections available on-line. Beside the general introduction to web analytics and presentation of functionality of such tools, the webinar will also…

Overview A few years ago we found ourselves running into the same problem – a lack of a uniform/standard data container for technical metadata that records our interventions with a given digital object. To combat this we established a rough data structure based on the existing PREMIS data structures and are keen to see this work move towards a standardised unit that we can all use in our respective systems. We’ve blogged about it here: https://openpreservation.org/blog/2018/09/06/a-standardised-mechanism-for-writing-and-retaining-technical-provenance-metadata/ and this webinar will introduce the…

Overview This webinar will focus on a selection of advanced imaging services which have been developed and used over the last years at the KU Leuven Libraries for the digitisation of documentary heritage. The presentation aims to demonstrate how a mid-range multispectral imaging set-up has step-by-step been fine-tuned towards a standardised acquisition procedure. In addition, the functionalities and dissemination strategies for the at the KU Leuven developed White Light and Multispectral Portable Light Dome system will be discussed in detail.…

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